Bronze (color)
Appearance
Bronze | |
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Hex triplet | #CD7F32 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (205, 127, 50) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (30°, 76%, 80%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 81, 39°) |
Source | 99colors.net[1]/Maerz and Paul[2] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong orange |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |

Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.

The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.[3]
Variations
[edit]Blast-off bronze
[edit]Blast-Off Bronze | |
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Hex triplet | #A57164 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (165, 113, 100) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (12°, 39%, 65%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (53, 39, 24°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light reddish brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.

Antique bronze
[edit]Antique Bronze | |
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Hex triplet | #665D1E |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (102, 93, 30) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (52°, 71%, 40%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (39, 37, 77°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS[4] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate olive |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910.[5]

References
[edit]- ^ "Color Bronze | Hex Code #CD7F32 | RGB 205, 127, 50". www.99colors.net.
- ^ The colour displayed in the colour box above matches the colour called bronze, in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour bronze is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9.
- ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 191; Colour Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9
- ^ "ISCC-NBS". Archived from the original on 22 November 2012.
- ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; p. 189, Color Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L10